Quotes About Creativity

Sometimes you have to take the risk that somebody will consider what you're making is noise, but if you don't try it, then nothing will move forward. I'd rather people hate something than just go 'meh.'

I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

If I could make noise with anything, I was going to.

The reason I started dancing in the first place was my dad took me to see 'Bring In 'da Noise, Bring In 'da Funk' when I was 9.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

I don't hear anyone out there that sounds like us. They can try but it's in the sonics, the whole carcass of the song. The way it attacks you is so well engineered. No one else can do that. They don't have the ability to make that noise.

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

If you remember one thing from talking to me, remember this: I am just a girl who makes noises - and I'm incredibly lucky that people happen to like those noises.

I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.

You know, I'd forget words and start just singing noises.

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

The entertainment industry is a very noisy, crowded marketplace.

I saw Double Leopards play at my school and realized there were other ways to approach noisy music that weren't necessarily aggressive. That became a very important concept for me as a musician. I don't think I would have been that interested in creating and performing my own music if it wasn't for this group.

I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.'

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.

I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.

For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for them, a lot can change. I don't know another way to restore our identity if it's not art.

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.